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Old Thu Apr 04, 2013, 08:43am
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Originally Posted by Tim C View Post
Trust me, no major league umpire has "rubbed the shine" off any baseballs for many, many years.

When a crew enters a city they are assigned an "club house attendant" to help them with any any all issues.

For years the first task handed to these people was the preparation of baseballs for game use. Using Delaware River mud (used by every MLB team) the clubhouse attendant rubs down the required number of balls.

At the end of the series the umpires "tip" the attendant very well for this activity.

I will also attest that very, very few (if any) AAA umpires rub down balls.

T
All somewhat true, but there are a lot of variables to this based on the crew, the money they want to spend and who is on that crew. And that is even more the case with AAA umpires because they do not make the money that MLB guys do and do a lot of things themselves to not spend money.

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